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News
More studies show Medicaid expansion has benefited hospitals
September 12, 2017
Any contraction of the Medicaid expansion offered through the Affordable Care Act will reduce overall health insurance coverage and could have important financial implications for U.S. hospitals.
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News
Epidemiology of meningitis and encephalitis in the United States
August 24, 2017
What is the epidemiology of meningitis and encephalitis in adults in the United States?
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Opinion
The role of NPs and PAs in hospital medicine programs
- Danielle Scheurer, MD, MSCR, SFHM;
- Tracy Cardin, ACNP-BC, SFHM
July 14, 2017
Hospitalist nurse practitioner and physician assistant providers have been a growing and evolving part of the inpatient medical workforce, seemingly since the inception of hospital medicine.
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News
Hospitalists’ scope of services continues to evolve
- Johnbuck Creamer, MD, SFHM
July 13, 2017
The 2016 State of Hospital Medicine Report shows the continuation of prior trends in hospital medicine groups’ scope of admittance and comanagement services.
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News
Hospitalist movers and shakers
April 28, 2017
An introduction to this year’s high achievers in hospitalist medicine.
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News
What drives readmissions within 90 days after MI hospitalization
April 26, 2017
WASHINGTON – Cardiologists and hospitals gear up for switch to Medicare bundled payments for acute MI.
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News
Sneak Peak: The Hospital Leader Blog
- Ann M. Sheehy, MD, MS, FHM
April 3, 2017
There is no doubt transparency is important, and patients should be informed when hospitalized as outpatients instead of as inpatients. But the wisdom of the federal NOTICE Act essentially stops there.
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News
Turnover rate for hospitalist groups trending downward
February 1, 2017
State of Hospital Medicine
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Article
‘I can handle it’– The state of hospitalist group backup systems
January 31, 2017
It took my hospital medicine group 20 years to implement a formal backup system. Of all the reasons we resisted creating a backup system, foremost was that we did not want to mandate additional work.
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News
Eight things hospitalists need to know about post-acute care
January 20, 2017
Staffing, reimbursement, and patient populations vary widely. Experts suggest training, and opportunities for improvement.